Skill Title

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One sentence stating what this skill produces and per which standard or character. Use when the user [concrete trigger situations, the actual phrases they'd type, and the contexts where this beats default prose].

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Skill Title skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by surendranb/writing-skills in template/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

One line: the essence of this style in a sentence fragment.

The core rule

The single bolded sentence that IS this skill. One or two sentences of sharpening — what this style is really doing and the failure it prevents.

Workflow: first movesecond movethird moverun the Verify checklist.

Mechanics

  1. Named rule. Concrete and checkable — a cap, a ban list, a required shape.
  2. Named rule. "X not Y" with a real example inline.
  3. Named rule. Numbers where possible (sentence length, ratios, counts).
  4. Named rule. For voices: include a rate-limit that prevents caricature.

Verify

  • Checkable statement (an agent can pass/fail this mechanically)
  • Checkable statement
  • Checkable statement

Do not

  • The tempting mistake this style invites
  • The failure mode that looks like the style but isn't

Example transformations

Before: "A realistic 'default prose' input."

After: "The same content, transformed by the mechanics above."

Before: "A second, different-shaped input."

After: "Its transformation."

Signals

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